Putin’s remarks illustrate the always fine line that Hillary Clinton walks
It is a line no male president or presidential candidate has never really needed to walk.
Mary Stanik
Jacqueline would have cast a gimlet eye on Monica — and all the others
In this soul-baring, tell-all, social-media age, she would have (mostly) kept a civil tongue.
From nixing ERA to opposing equal pay, Phyllis Schlafly’s still at it
Now she’s worried about the marriage prospects of women, especially if they earn more than their male counterparts.
College costs: ‘Belle Knox’ aside, the real shame is that many can’t see higher ed in their future
Many young people believe that any sort of higher education exceeds their most earnest grasp.
Olympics always include grace and lack of it; why are we surprised?
Even the media training that is now part of elite athlete education cannot “teach” grace or humility.
France’s sex scandals, like its films, seem more artful than ours
It was only a matter of time in this Twitter age that at least some of the French decided their politicians and their l’affaires were more than fair game.
Exploring America’s ever-enduring fascination with Jack and Jackie Kennedy
I understand the romance about the Lancelot president and his Guinevere wife. But I know there are other reasons people continue to be so taken with the Kennedys.
With Weiner, Huma Abedin has enough problems without the rest of us judging her
Questioning why Abedin is standing by Weiner, or why any wife sticks with a twitching scoundrel, is pretty pointless.
Mrs. Obama and the heckler
Last week, a lot of people representing many different political persuasions were shocked when first lady Michelle Obama dealt straight on with a heckler at a private fundraiser.
Cartoonist Ohman’s offense? Starkly provoking a debate over politics and public safety
In Jack Ohman’s cartoon, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is pictured boasting about his state’s low-tax and low-regulation environment. Next to that is shown the recent blast.
Princeton letter: One more salvo in the how-women-should-live war
Susan Patton, a 1977 Princeton University graduate, advised female Princeton students to find a husband now, while they’re in school.
Hillary Clinton’s recent illness raises the old question: How healthy do our top leaders need to be?
One doesn’t need to be a physician to have seen that the secretary of state has not appeared exactly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed of late.
With Petraeus and Broadwell, we have a different sort of sex scandal
What’s really sad about the Petraeus-Broadwell affair is to see two people of substance act in ways that insult their intelligence, accomplishments, and character.
Ann Romney’s two words — a PR pro’s bad dream
Maybe anyone who wants to be considered a member of polite, and not entitled, society should tremble at least a bit at the sound of these two words used together.
Where are the men’s voices favoring coverage of contraceptives?
I don’t accept the lack of a massive outcry from the men who also are affected by contraception gone wrong or denied.
